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59th Directors Guild Of America Awards
The 59th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in films, documentary and television in 2006, were presented on February 3, 2007, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza The Fairmont Century Plaza is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel in Los Angeles. Located in Century City, the hotel forms a sweeping crescent design fronting the Avenue of the Stars, adjacent to the twin Century Plaza Towers and the 2000 Avenue of .... The ceremony was hosted by Carl Reiner. On January 9, 2007, the nominees in the feature film category were announced and on January 10, 2007, the nominations in the television movie category were announced. The nominations for the remaining six television awards were announced on January 11, 2007, and the nominations for directorial achievement in documentaries and commercials were announced on January 16, 2007. Winners and nominees Film Television Commercials Lifetime Achievement in News Direction * George Paul R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
The Fairmont Century Plaza is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel in Los Angeles. Located in Century City, the hotel forms a sweeping crescent design fronting the Avenue of the Stars, adjacent to the twin Century Plaza Towers and the 2000 Avenue of the Stars complex. At the time of its opening in 1966, the Century Plaza Hotel was the highest building in Century City, with views extending all the way to the Pacific Ocean. It was also the first hotel to have color televisions in all of its rooms. The hotel closed for renovations in 2016, and reopened on September 27, 2021. It is now operated by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, and it is a member of Historic Hotels of America. History In 1961, developer William Zeckendorf and Alcoa bought about from 20th Century Fox after the studio had suffered a string of expensive flops, culminating in the box-office disaster ''Cleopatra''. The new owners conceived Century City as "a city within a city" with the arc-shaped, 19-story, 750-room Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Dayton And Valerie Faris
Jonathan Dayton (born July 7, 1957) and Valerie Faris (born October 20, 1958) are a team of American film and music video directors who received critical acclaim for their feature film directorial debut, ''Little Miss Sunshine'' (2006). Later the married couple directed the romantic comedy-drama ''Ruby Sparks'' (2012), and the biographical sports film, sports drama ''Battle of the Sexes (2017 film), Battle of the Sexes'' (2017). Their most recent directing project is the 2019 Netflix comedy series, ''Living with Yourself'', starring Paul Rudd, and the 2022 Hulu series ''Fleishman Is in Trouble (miniseries), Fleishman Is In Trouble''. Life and career Dayton was born in Alameda County, California, and grew up in Grass Valley, California. After graduating from Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, California, he attended the UCLA Film School, studying film and television in the late 1970s; while there, he met Valerie Faris, a dance student and native of Los Angeles County, Californi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iraq In Fragments
''Iraq in Fragments'' is a documentary film directed by James Longley. Longley shot the film in Digital Video on a Panasonic DVX100 miniDV camcorder. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival where it won three awards: "Directing Award Documentary", "Editing Award Documentary" and "Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary". The film is also a part of the Iraq Media Action Project film collection. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film was shot in Iraq and edited at 911 Media Arts Center in Seattle. This film has three parts to it which describe the viewpoints of Sunni, Shi'ite, and Kurdish residents. Film credits *Director: James Longley *Producers: John Sinno, James Longley *Editors: Billy McMillin, Fiona Otway, James Longley *Camera: James Longley *Post Coordinator: Basil Shadid *Sound / Music: James Longley *2nd Unit Camera: Margaret Longley *Re-Recording Mixer: Dave Howe *Colorist: Bill Lord *Translators: Ahmed Ayed, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Longley (filmmaker)
James Bertrand Longley is an American filmmaker. Career His work includes the documentary, ''Gaza Strip'', released in 2002. His production, ''Iraq in Fragments'', presents a view of Iraq and Iraqis during the first two years of Iraq War. It was awarded three jury awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, but lost to ''An Inconvenient Truth''. His short film '' Sari's Mother'' premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short but lost to ''Freeheld''. In 2009, Longley was awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant." Between 2007 and 2009 Longley was working on a film in Iran. The film was cut short during the time of the elections and ensuing protests in June, 2009. On Sunday, June 14, ''The New York Times'' Lede blog reported he "was arrested with his translator while interviewing people on a street in Tehran, near the Interio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workingman's Death
''Workingman's Death'' is a 2005 Austrian-German documentary film written and directed by Michael Glawogger. It premiered at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. The film deals with the extremes to which workers go to earn a living in several countries around the world. The film is composed of six differently titled chapters. The first five depict hazardous conditions of hard laborers around the world and the sixth shows contrasting scenes of youths in a former German industrial complex which had been converted into a leisure park: #''Heroes'' – Miners of Donets Basin, Ukraine #''Ghosts'' – Sulfur carriers in Ijen, Indonesia #''Lions'' – Butchers in an open-air market in Port Harcourt, Nigeria #''Brothers'' – Welders in the Gadani ship-breaking yard in Pakistan #''The Future'' – Steel workers in Liaoning, China #''Epilogue'' – Youths in Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord in Germany Reception The film was met with a largely positive critical reception with a 73% approval ratin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Glawogger
Michael Glawogger (3 December 1959 – 23 April 2014) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. From 1981 to 1982, Glawogger studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and from 1983 to 1989 at the Vienna Film Academy. Like fellow Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, with whom he collaborated several times, he was mainly known for his documentary films, such as ''Megacities'' (1998), ''Workingman's Death'' (2005) and '' Whores' Glory'' (2011). In 2008 he was a member of the jury at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival. Other works In 2013, Glawogger contributed one chapter to "Cathedrals of Culture", a 3-D film on architecture produced by Wim Wenders. Death and legacy Four days after incorrectly being diagnosed with typhus, he died from malaria on 22 April 2014 shortly before midnight in Monrovia, Liberia during a movie production. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deliver Us From Evil (2006 Film)
''Deliver Us from Evil'' is a 2006 American documentary film that explores the life of Irish Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady, who admitted to having molested and raped approximately 25 children in Northern California from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Written and directed by Amy J. Berg, it won the Best Documentary Award at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, though it lost to ''An Inconvenient Truth''. The title of the film refers to a line in the Lord's Prayer. Synopsis The film chronicles O'Grady's years as a priest in Northern California, where he committed his crimes. After being convicted of child molestation in 1993 and serving seven years in prison, he was deported to his native Ireland, where Berg interviewed him in 2005. Additionally, the film presents trial documents, videotaped depositions with O'Grady and other members of the Los Angeles Archdiocese (including Monsignor Cain and Roger Mahony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy J
Amy is a female given name, sometimes short for Amanda, Amelia, Amélie, or Amita. In French, the name is spelled ''"Aimée"''. People A–E * Amy Acker (born 1976), American actress * Amy Vera Ackman, also known as Mother Giovanni (1886–1966), Australian hospital administrator * Amy Adams (born 1974), American actress * Amy Alcott (born 1956) – American Hall of Fame golfer * Amy Archer-Gilligan, (1873–1962), American serial killer * Amy Beach (1867–1944), American composer and pianist * Amy Birnbaum (born 1975), American voice actress * Amy Bishop (born 1965), American professor and mass shooter * Amy Braverman, American statistician * Amy Brenneman (born 1964), American actress * Amy Bruckner (born 1991), American actress and singer * Amy Callaghan (born 1992), British politician * Amy Carmichael (1867–1951), British missionary to India * Amy Castle (born 1990), American actress and internet personality * Amy Cimorelli (born 1995), American singer * Amy Carter ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Before Flying Back To Earth
''Before Flying Back to Earth'' (originally released in Lithuania as ''Prieš parskrendant į žemę'' in 2005) is the first feature-length documentary film by the Lithuanian film director Arūnas Matelis. In a lyrical, yet unsentimental fashion, it shows the lives of children hospitalized with leukemia in Vilnius Pediatric Hospital - the same place where Matelis' daughter had battled and recovered from this disease some time before the start of production. The film is described as "a poetic, unsentimental Lithuanian documentary about the resilience of (the) human spirit". Its laconic style and its formal simplicity have been likened to haiku by some critics. ''Before Flying Back to the Earth'' is the most highly acclaimed recent Lithuanian film and is considered one of the best documentary films of 2005 in the world; it has been shown in numerous festivals. The film is in the Lithuanian language. Awards Arūnas Matelis was awarded the Best Director award in Documentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Directors Guild Of America Award For Outstanding Directing – Documentaries
The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards given by the Directors Guild of America. It was first awarded at the 44th Directors Guild of America Awards in 1992. Winners and nominees 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple wins and nominations See also *Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosoph ... References External links * (official website) {{DEFAULTSORT:Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Documentaries Directors Guild of America Awards American documentary film awards Awards established in 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babel (film)
''Babel'' is a 2006 psychological drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. The multi-narrative drama completes Arriaga's and Iñárritu's ''Death Trilogy'', following ''Amores perros'' and '' 21 Grams''. It is an international co-production among companies based in the United States, Mexico and France. The film features an ensemble cast and use of hyperlink cinema, which portrays interwoven stories taking place in Morocco, Japan, Mexico, and the United States. ''Babel'' was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where González Iñárritu won the Best Director Award. The film was later screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film opened in selected cities in the United States on 27 October 2006, and went into wide release on 10 November 2006. ''Babel'' received positive reviews and was a financial success, grossing $135 million worldwide. It eventually won the Golden Globe Award f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu (; American Spanish: ; credited since 2016 as Alejandro G. Iñárritu; born 15 August 1963) is a Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter. He is primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the human condition. His projects have garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades including four Academy Awards with a Special Achievement Award, three Golden Globe Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two American Film Institute Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards and a Producers Guild of America Award. His most notable films include ''Amores perros'' (2000), '' 21 Grams'' (2003), '' Babel'' (2006), '' Biutiful'' (2010), '' Birdman'' (2014), and '' The Revenant'' (2015). Iñárritu's first feature film, ''Amores Perros'' (2000), won the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His next film, ''21 Grams'' (2003), was critically and commerc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
